On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> > The so called "scope" in IPv6 is emeddeded in the address, so you can't use
> > IPv6 addresses without getting the scope too.
>
> Are you sure? Here is what itojun said in
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> due to the IPv6 address architecture (scoped), 16 bytes does not
> identify a node. we need 4 byte more information to identify the
> outgoing scope zone.
>
> Am I misunderstanding him that Wget needs to keep 20 bytes of information
> to successfully connect?
Well, if itojun said it then that's so. I have the greatest respect for his
IPv6 abilities.
This is news to me and I don't really understand what a "outgoing scope zone"
is...
Sorry for the added confusion to this thread.
--
Daniel Stenberg - http://daniel.haxx.se - +46-705-44 31 77
ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol
